Is this only GitHub? I noticed other pages and services being extremely slow or erroring more often. Claude errored on file uploads, LinkedIn took 1minute+ to load a simple page.
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GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
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Re: GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
#12The real lock-in is stars, not reliability [1]. They can have weekly outages, and the FOSS products would still be forced to be on GitHub. 1 - https://ashishb.net/tech/github-stars/
I came to a similar conclusion - that GitHub benefits from a network effect similar to social media. I would really like to leave GitHub, but it's where stuff is happening. Any company seriously looking to replace GitHub should pay some attention the social network aspect of it.
Re: GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
#13The real lock-in is stars, not reliability [1]. They can have weekly outages, and the FOSS products would still be forced to be on GitHub. 1 - https://ashishb.net/tech/github-stars/
I have literally never looked at github stars as a measure of quality or had it affect my decision. I have looked at git logs, websites, issues, etc. But I would be genuinely worried if someone used github stars as an indication. So many honestly stupid projects have a lot of stars, and stellar ones have next to none. https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/... proof here. The top are taken by chi…
The hacker News crowd has always these elitist takes
- I don't look at GitHub Stars
- I don't use Facebook
- I am never persuaded by advertisement
- I can build Dropbox over a weekend
Re: GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
#14Wow, first one in a week!
I think they've just stopped caring about the consequences at this point, they know they have enough market dominance and lock-in that they can go down as often as they like.
Besides the frequent outages, GitHub is largely being left to rot because they're distracted by AI. Actions is a security catastrophe. I can't point to a single feature that they've shipped in the past year that pushes the bar.
Re: GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
#15The real lock-in is stars, not reliability [1]. They can have weekly outages, and the FOSS products would still be forced to be on GitHub. 1 - https://ashishb.net/tech/github-stars/
I have literally never looked at github stars as a measure of quality or had it affect my decision. I have looked at git logs, websites, issues, etc. But I would be genuinely worried if someone used github stars as an indication. So many honestly stupid projects have a lot of stars, and stellar ones have next to none. https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/... proof here. The top are taken by chi…
I don't rely on stars as the main signal of quality, but very low stars could stop me from looking into the things that I do use as a signal:
- number of contributors
- open issues
- merged and unmerged PRs
- commit history
- the code
- project governance
Re: GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
#16The real lock-in is stars, not reliability [1]. They can have weekly outages, and the FOSS products would still be forced to be on GitHub. 1 - https://ashishb.net/tech/github-stars/
I came to a similar conclusion - that GitHub benefits from a network effect similar to social media. I would really like to leave GitHub, but it's where stuff is happening. Any company seriously looking to replace GitHub should pay some attention the social network aspect of it.
> Any company seriously looking to replace GitHub should pay some attention the social network aspect of it.
Indeed. And I would say it is not just social signals but even non-social authority signals.
E.g. how many other projects depend on this projects and how many downloads happen for its artifacts.
You can see some of these on package registries like npm and pypi where their authority signals help people choose between the right libraries.
Re: GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have literally never looked at github stars as a measure of quality or had it affect my decision. I have looked at git logs, websites, issues, etc. But I would be genuinely worried if someone used github stars as an indication. So many honestly stupid projects have a lot of stars, and stellar ones have next to none. https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/... proof here. The top are taken by chi…
The hacker News crowd has always these elitist takes - I don't look at GitHub Stars - I don't use Facebook - I am never persuaded by advertisement - I can build Dropbox over a weekend Even if these are true, it is irrelevant. Hacker News is only a sliver of the tech world.
If I am sitting in a review session and the Engineer presenting brings up their options and why they are choosing to bring in technology A over B, and I ask them what their reasoning is. Being unsatisfied by "There are a lot of Github stars" Seems like an absolutely reasonable position to me. This is the equivalent of saying that something seems more true because it has a lot of facebook likes.
Re: GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have literally never looked at github stars as a measure of quality or had it affect my decision. I have looked at git logs, websites, issues, etc. But I would be genuinely worried if someone used github stars as an indication. So many honestly stupid projects have a lot of stars, and stellar ones have next to none. https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/... proof here. The top are taken by chi…
The hacker News crowd has always these elitist takes - I don't look at GitHub Stars - I don't use Facebook - I am never persuaded by advertisement - I can build Dropbox over a weekend Even if these are true, it is irrelevant. Hacker News is only a sliver of the tech world.
Another anecdote chiming in here. I've literally never paid attention to GitHub stars for anything important. Except if a repo of a big project has few stars I double check because I'm probably looking at a fork instead of the main repo.
Re: GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
The hacker News crowd has always these elitist takes - I don't look at GitHub Stars - I don't use Facebook - I am never persuaded by advertisement - I can build Dropbox over a weekend Even if these are true, it is irrelevant. Hacker News is only a sliver of the tech world.
If I am sitting in a review session and the Engineer presenting brings up their options and why they are choosing to bring in technology A over B, and I ask them what their reasoning is. Being unsatisfied by "There are a lot of Github stars" Seems like an absolutely reasonable position to me. This is the equivalent of saying that something seems more true because it has a lot of facebook likes.
GitHub Stars are not a selection mechanism. They are filtering mechanism for most people.
Imagine someone is choosing between three FOSS projects - one has 90K stars, one has 30K and the thirdone has 1K.
In your meeting, the engineer will show you how he decided between the first and the second without even mentioning the third.
Re: GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have literally never looked at github stars as a measure of quality or had it affect my decision. I have looked at git logs, websites, issues, etc. But I would be genuinely worried if someone used github stars as an indication. So many honestly stupid projects have a lot of stars, and stellar ones have next to none. https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/... proof here. The top are taken by chi…
The hacker News crowd has always these elitist takes - I don't look at GitHub Stars - I don't use Facebook - I am never persuaded by advertisement - I can build Dropbox over a weekend Even if these are true, it is irrelevant. Hacker News is only a sliver of the tech world.
Good for you champ.